[giarc]

SpaceX biggest customer is the US government. You really think the US gov will ship satellites to China for launches?

[justapassenger]

This. Spacex, while private and agile company, exists purely because of USA government buying their services - that’s majority of their revenue.

There’s nothing wrong with that, being government contractor is a huge part of an economy.

[deregulateMed]

>There’s nothing wrong with that

The military industrial complex, crony capitalism, and siphoning tax dollars to billionaires are definitely debatable topics.